Hilmi Murad

Hilmi Murad (1919–1998) was an Egyptian economist and politician who served as the general secretary and vice president of the Socialist Labour Party. In addition, he was one of the ministers of education of Egypt.

Hilmi Murad
Minister of Education
In office
20 May 1968 – 1969
PresidentGamal Abdel Nasser
Personal details
Born7 July 1919
Cairo
Died1998 (aged 78–79)
Political party
Alma mater

Early life and education

Hilmi Murad was born on 7 July 1919 in Cairo.[1] His sister, Amina Murad, was the wife of Kamal Al Din Salah who was assassinated on 16 April 1957 while serving as a consultant to the United Nations in Mogadishu, Somali.[2]

Hilmi Murad graduated from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University in 1939 and received a postgraduate diploma in public law in 1940.[1] He received a PhD from the University of Paris in 1949.[1]

Career

Murad joined the Public Prosecution Office in 1942 and served there until 1946.[1] He worked as a professor of public finance.[3][4] He served as the vice president of Cairo University.[5] In the 1960s he worked in the UNESCO. He was appointed minister of education on 20 May 1968 when Gamal Abdel Nasser reshuffled the cabinet.[6] Murad's tenure ended in 1969 when he was removed from office by Nasser.[1][4]

Murad was a member of the socialist party which was established by Ahmad Hussein in the 1940s.[4] Later he became one of the leading figures of the Socialist Labour Party[7] and served as its vice president in the 1980s.[3][8] He was also one of the contributors of the newspaper Al Shaab.[7] He later joined the New Wafd Party.[9] Murad was one of its three vice presidents and also, headed the parliament group of the party.[10] In addition, he was the spokesperson of the party.[11]

Later years and death

In early October 1993 Hilmi Murad and three other members of the Socialist Labour Party were arrested and detained for three days due to the publication of an article in Al Shaab newspaper which harshly criticized the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.[12] Murad died in 1998.[13]

References
  1. "حلمي مراد" (in Arabic). Dar Al Tanweer. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  2. Helmi Sharawy. "from An Egyptian African Story". Asymptote. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. Saad Eddin Ibrahim (2002). Egypt Islam And Democracy:Critical Essays. Cairo: American University in Cairo Prees. p. 164. ISBN 978-977-424-664-7.
  4. Galal A. Amin; John Wright (2013). Whatever Happened to the Egyptian Revolution?. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. pp. 146, 149. ISBN 978-977-416-589-4.
  5. Fauzi M. Najjar (January 1976). "State and University in Egypt during the Period of Socialist Transformation, 1961-1967". The Review of Politics. 38 (1): 69, 80. doi:10.1017/S0034670500015473. S2CID 144740967.
  6. Patricia Peghini Ryan (1972). The Arab Socialist Union of Egypt (PhD thesis). West Virginia University. p. 99. ISBN 9798659245712. ProQuest 302593067.
  7. Robert Springborg (2019). Mubarak's Egypt: Fragmentation of The Political Order. New York: Routledge. pp. 109, 172. ISBN 978-0-429-72211-0.
  8. Noha El-Mikawy (1999). The Building of Consensus in Egypt's Transition Process. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. pp. 59, 149. ISBN 978-977-424-498-8.
  9. John Waterbury (2014). The Egypt of Nasser and Sadat: The Political Economy of Two Regimes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 261, 384. ISBN 978-1-4008-5735-7.
  10. Raymond A. Hinnebusch (March 1984). "The Reemergence of the Wafd Party: Glimpses of the Liberal Opposition in Egypt". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 16 (1): 114. doi:10.1017/S0020743800027628. S2CID 159971207.
  11. Donald M. Reid (1979). "The Return of the Egyptian Wafd, 1978". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 12 (3): 407. doi:10.2307/218411. JSTOR 218411.
  12. "Chronology July 16, 1993-October 15, 1993". The Middle East Journal. 48 (1): 129. Winter 1994. JSTOR 4328665.
  13. Mohammed Al Jawadi (24 June 2021). "د. محمد حلمي مراد آخر المعارضين النبلاء". Al Jazeera (in Arabic). Retrieved 9 November 2021.
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